those pastors would use anything. i mean, he was called a pawn of jews and catholics, certainly an outsider. this whole issue of, you know, is he black enough, you know, began to arise. >> narrator: with mixed success, he tried to build coalitions for three years. but he had become frustrated. he wrote about it in a letter to a friend. >> "it's tough. lots of driving, lots of hours on the phone trying to break through lethargy, lots of dull meetings. lots of frustration." >> at that point, he begins thinking about, "is there some other way to do the same job that i'm trying to do?" which is lift people out of poverty. >> narrator: he decided to move on, this time to law school. >> he said to some of his community organizing buddies, he needed that credential, that harvard law degree, to access the corridors of power. >> narrator: christmas-time in 1968, mitt romney returned to detroit from his mormon mission. his mother and father were waiting at the airport, and so was his high school girlfriend, ann davies. >> ann i